News on Land

Big land deals are forcing people from their homes and damaging livelihoods. The New Internationalist magazine is proposing an infographic guide Here.

Date: April 3rd 2016

Source: TeleSUR 

Finland's new Forestry Act is poised to rob Sami people of decision-making control over their homelands.

Against a backdrop of heightened tensions in the region and other worrisome developments, Wixarika leaders have filed an injunction to stop the illegal drilling in exploration for gold and silver in their ancestral sacred lands of Wirikuta.

By: Chris Arsenault

Date: April 19th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

RIO DE JANEIRO, April 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous tribes in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, who have had little or no contact with the outside world, are facing "annihilation" from illegal loggers, ranchers and miners who want their land, a campaign group said on Tuesday.

The majority of small-scale farmers have no legal access to water

By: Duncan Gromko

Date: May 2nd 2016

Source: The Guardian

Ethiopia has confirmed its commitment to restore its degraded lands to improve food security and biodiversity. Now, it’s looking to the private sector for support.

By: Manipadma Jena

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Date: Monday, 23 May 2016 

A district in the eastern state of Odisha is challenging gender inequality by giving land to vulnerable women living alone

BARIPADA, India - When her husband died seven years ago, leaving her to fend for herself, 37-year-old Kuni Majhi survived hunger, illness, drunk men hammering at the flimsy tin door of her thatched hut - and very nearly lost all hope.

By: Zoe Tabary

Date: Thursday, 9 June 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

As Nepali men migrate to find work, women are taking over in the fields - earning them more money and respect